The Getty Museum has bolstered its collection of Spanish works with a painting by 16th-century master Luis de Morales.

ROME (CNS) — Today’s “builders of Babel” are constructing a hell on earth, rejecting everyone they decide are “losers,” Pope Francis wrote in the meditations for the Way of the Cross.

The Vatican — with its politics, its pageantry and its power — has long been a favorite subject for artists and thinkers.